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DOVER CANNONADE: FIASCO OR WARNING? 'Bertha' Bombardment May Be Herald Of Invasion

TOMMY GUNS FOR THE BRITISH ARMY-The Guards training with Tommy Guns received from U.S.A., firing from the shoulder. (Copyright. Fox)

LIFT

LULL IN AIR

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WAR CONTINUES:

CRASHES NO BOMBS 180 FEET

(SPECIAL' TO "CHINA MAIL")

A miraculous escape from what appeared cer- tain death was enjoyed by 13 Japanese who were rid- ing in an elevator on Osa- ka's popular Eiffel Tower in Tennoji Park yester- day.

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The cable suddenly broke when the elevator was 180 feet above) ground. It fell straight to earth but not one of the 13 passengers suffered so much as a bad' scratch. All escaped with minar bruises and a bad case of fright. Greater sufferers than the 13 central figures in the hair-raising incident were 80 Osaka residents who had gone to the top of the tower for 'a look-sce and were marooned for four hours while the elevator was repaired. Havas.

Air Ministry re- ports received up to 6.p.m. G.M.T.' show that only a small number of aircraft, mostly operating sing- ly, crossed the coast during the day.

None of the ma- chines penetrated more.than a few miles and no bombs were dropped on land:

Lively Speculation Follows Shelling

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(SPECIAL TO CHINA MAIL")

YESTERDAY'S CANNONADING OF THE SOUTH-EAST COAST BY HITLER'S "BIG BERTHAS” HAS GIVEN RISE TO EXCITED SPECULA- TION. BOTH THE SHELLING OF THE CONVOY AND THE BOMBARD- MENT OF THE COAST ARE REGARDED BY OBSERVERS AS "TAR- GET PRACTICE" POSSIBLY INDICATING THAT THE MUCH-HERALD- ED INVASION OF BRITAIN WILL BE ATTEMPTED SHORTLY.

From any other angle, neutral correspon- |

dents suggest, the bombardment was both a CHINESE BEGIN

fiasco and a strategic mistake.

A fiasco because neither ships nor any im-

portant objective on land was hit. A strategic blunder because the Nazis have now given away the positions of their batteries.

As these batteries are presumed to be in- tended to lay a barrage to cover a blitzkrieg invasion effort, the point of defence seems also to be strongly indicated.

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OFFENSIVE

SIVE PREDICTED BY CHUNG-

REGARDING THE OFFEN-

KING, THE JAPANESE SPOKES- MAN IN PEIPING STATED TO.

DAY THAT SINCE AUGUST 20

FORCES

CONSIDERABLE CHINESE. ATTACKED THREE RAILWAYS-THE KIN

HAD

HAN, TUNG-PU AND HEN-TAI

DAMAGING LINES AND DESTROYING THE TELE- GRAPH.

The guns fired 14-inch shells, Neutral observers in London but the whole episode from morn-point out that the fiasco disproves] He admitted the offensive ing until last evening when the Nazi claims that Germany do-showed signs of being more care- coastal bombardment began was minates the Channel and that fully organised than usual. Ja heavy waste. of ammunition. British convoys can no longer use Traffic on the Kin-Han line

The view in London is that it.

was interrupted for several days. the German demonstration was At the same time, they sug-i Other reports confirm consider- an abject failure as confirmed by gest that the shelling was of an able fighting on the sector be- neutral press correspondents who experimental nature anji forc-tween Chochow and Shuntefu. watched the firing through bino-warning of bigger and more im-{ Several trains were wrecked culars from the English coast.

moves in the near fu-land the bridge across the Tsao Concussions shook the ture.-Hovas.

River damaged. Reuter. ground as thells of about 14- inch.calibre came hurtling at the rate of two a minute.

The first guns opened fire ati about 11 a.m. as a large convoy proceeded up the Channel, and four huge columns of water shot up into the air. Hundreds of people, who at first thought it was an, air raid, rushed to the |coast to watch the fun.

45-Minute Attack

Four enemy aircraft were shot down by our fighters. Two of our fighters were lost, but the pilot of one is French coast could be seen safe.

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LOST IN TYPHOON

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Through powerful binoculars, smoke from the batteries on the and the scream of the shells across the water could be heard. '. The attack lasted for about 45 min- utes, at the end of which appar- ently nothing in the convoy- neither merchant vessels, warships nor minesweepers-was hit,

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The convoy maintained per- fect 'formation throughout, while destroyers flung out smoke-screen and R.A.F. 'planes roared into action.

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A lone German 'plane,y high.

in the air, which tried to net] as "spotter" for the Nazi gunsį

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reports of rubbish boat. The bout fully lining the coast from Calais

Mladen was anchored off Fleming Boulogne was shot down by the

R.A.F...

nection with the Typhoon the China Construction Company Several matsheds belonging to

have come in.;

at Shouson Hill were wrecked.

TRADE DOLDRUMS

A yacht belonging to Mr. L. R. A part of the wall of No. 25, Latest statistics issued by the Brown, of the China Construction Stone Nullah Lane, Wanchai, col-Chinese Maritime Customs in Company, was blown off from its lapsed, while the north part of a Shanghai show that Shanghai's mooring át Deep Water Bay. The bridge in Taipo Road, near 10-foreign trade. in July was heavily yacht has not yet been. located. mile stone, was damaged. No person was on bond.

The Bridge is dangerous

The Sanitary Department lost traiße,

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